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Media Environments

A programme of experimental films made at CAVS, MIT, curated by Márton Orosz, starting from György Kepes’s conception of the “new landscape”. Outdoor screening, free admission.

Afișul New Landscape Festival, Contaminare. Art. Science. Nature. Film, 21-25 octombrie 2026, București: secțiune microscopică prin țesut vegetal în turcoaz și violet, cu logourile partenerilor.
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CASA, Centre of Art and Applied Science (outdoors), Str. Tudor Arghezi 44, București
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New Landscape Festival
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scheduled
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A programme of experimental films made at CAVS, MIT. Outdoor screening, free admission.

Kepes’s most visionary achievement was the founding of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) at MIT: an innovative platform that brought together artists and scientists to explore collaboratively new ways of seeing and interacting with civic space.

Media Environments is a programme curated by Márton Orosz and brings together experiments that respond to the radical shift in perspective implicit in Kepes’s conception of the “new landscape”. These works explore how the instruments designed to extend and transform vision, and the new forms of images they produce, can, in turn, reshape the way we see, perceive and understand the world.

The “new landscape” was not simply a new subject for art, but a new way of seeing. Microscopes, telescopes, cameras, electronic systems and other technological extensions of human perception revealed a previously invisible landscape, in which organic and inorganic forms, the microscopic and the cosmic, the known and the unknown could be understood as interconnected structures in a single continuum. Kepes described this as the revelation of a “beautiful hidden rhythm of the world”: a second nature, previously unseen, revealed through the technological prostheses of perception.

The selection of films

  1. Unused Special Effects for H. G. Wells and William Cameron Menzies' Film Things to Come, László Moholy-Nagy, 1936, 2 min
  2. Squares Forming Patterns I-IV (The Division of a Square by Two to Infinity), Eugene Darwin Cizek, 1965, 6 min
  3. Black Is, Aldo Tambellini, 1965, 4 min
  4. Ekta, Frank Eidlitz, 1967, 6 min
  5. Cybernetic Play on Franz Joseph Haydn's “The Schoolmaster”, Wen-Ying Tsai, 1969, 7 min
  6. Electronic Light Ballet, Otto Piene, 1969, 5 min
  7. Hello, Allan Kaprow, 1969, 5 min
  8. Capriccio for TV, James Seawright, 1969, 6 min
  9. Centerbeam, Richard Leacock and Jon Rubin, 1978, 12 min
  10. Displacements, Michael Naimark, 1980, 2 min
  11. Communicationssphere, Aldo Tambellini, 1981, 7 min

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